- Win4Lin futures
- Posted by John Thompson on February 28th, 2004
On 2004-02-28, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@yin.interaccess.com> wrote:
Although VMware uses a virtual disk for it's Windows installation, Win4Lin
does not. It uses your linux filesystem and the Win4Lin kernel patches
and modules translate the Windows disk functions to their equivalents in
linux. In Win4Lin, Windows neither knows nor cares that it is actually
running on a linux filesystem.
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- Posted by John Thompson on February 28th, 2004
On 2004-02-28, Jabali Pragya <jabali@xspamfreeuk.com> wrote:
That's interesting. I don't have a USB ZIP drive, but I did try a USB
Flash drive. It wasn't recognized. Nor are my USB scanner or PDA.
All are recognized by Win2k in VMware, though.
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-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)
- Posted by Kamus of Kadizhar on February 28th, 2004
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:27:40 +0000, Kenny McCormack wrote:
OK, VMWare sets up an entire emulated hardware system. The OS thinks it's
running on an actual hardware platform.
Win4lin patches the linux kernel and substitutes some widows system files
which translate Win9x system calls into linux kernel calls.
Win4Lin is far faster than VMWare but because it's much more intrusive
into both linux and windows it has greater limitations as far as what it
can run.
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- Posted by Crashdamage on February 29th, 2004
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:29:37 -0800, Adams-Blake Company
<atakeoutcanton@adams-blaketakeout.com> wrote:
I'm not the guy to answer your questions about this stuff. Like I said,
I just use GnuCash for home finances and taxes, and I use an old version
at that. So I'm not up to speed on the latest business features in
GnuCash. I never did use Quicken, so I don't know exactly what
features in it you're asking for an equivelent of.
I do know that with home-user needs pretty well handled, the GnuCash
developers have been concentrating lately on adding a lot of more
business-oriented features to make GnuCash more attractive for
businesses, and they seem to be having some success.
Sounds like a good question for the GnuCash-user mailing list.
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- Posted by General Schvantzkoph on February 29th, 2004
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:50:56 -0600, John Thompson wrote:
Quickbooks won't write a paycheck or make a tax payment without checking
to see if it's tax tables are current which requires that you subscribe to
an Intuit update service. Intuit sent me a letter informing me that they
will stop supporting Quickbooks 2002 as of April 2005, no support means
that the paycheck function stops working which for us means that the
program has stopped working. At the end of this year we will be forced to
either upgrade Quickbooks or find an alternative (our accountants use
Peachtree so that would be the other likely candidate). There is one more
alternative which is Peachtree Web Accounting which might allow me to
avoid Windoze altogether. Has anyone tried their web accounting service?
- Posted by A-B C. on March 1st, 2004
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
Our small corporation is Linux based. We have used a web service called
PayCycle (www.paycycle.com) for the past two years to do our payroll and
we've been VERY happy with it. We still use Quicken 99 under Win4Lin for our
accounts payable (check writing) and we use our own web service, JAYA123 for
everything else. We try to be as cross platform as possible.
Al Canton
Adams-Blake Company, Inc.
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